Novelist
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
The elegant extremist
Ian McEwan has always tempered his shocking stories with polished prose
The feud that made the modern age
A new book breathes new life into historical fiction
Rediscovering Martin Amis
He made reading, and writing, fun
An off-kilter visionary
Henry Green had a strange and distinctive talent
Remembering an “effervescently affable man”
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
The ascent of Barbara Pym
A chronicler of the overlooked, she has at last got her just literary deserts
Stand with Salman Rushdie
There should be no doubt
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
